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Cavicchi, Elizabeth – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2008
A teacher and a college student explore experimental science and its history by reading historical texts, and responding with replications and experiments of their own. A curriculum of ever-widening possibilities evolves in their ongoing interactions with each other, history, and such materials as pendulums, flame, and resonant singing tubes.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Science History, Scientific Research, Experiments
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Fluke, Christopher J. – Astronomy Education Review, 2009
I report on a pilot study on the use of Google Maps to provide virtual field trips as a component of a wholly online graduate course on the history of astronomy. The Astronomical Tourist Web site (http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/tourist), themed around the role that specific locations on Earth have contributed to the development of astronomical…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Field Trips, Astronomy, Web Sites